Practical guides, expert advice and resources to manage, value and grow your comic book collection.
Tier S, A, B, C and D. The question to ask before each purchase: who owns the request? On four of his five most expensive numbers, the answer is “to someone else.”
Read article →How to distinguish a 1st print from a 2nd print and a facsimile, why the value differs and how to avoid paying for a reissue at the price of an original.
Read article →Managing over-exposure to a character or an era, arbitrating between pockets and rotating capital: concrete method to rebalance your collection.
Read article →X-Men #1 (1963), Lee and Kirby. But the character we find there is not the one we collect: it will take eighteen years for another author to invent him.
Read article →Amazing Spider-Man #50 (1967), Stan Lee and John Romita Sr.: first appearance of Wilson Fisk, and “Spider-Man No More!” ". Context, pitfalls to purchasing, what makes the value.
Read article →The limited series from 1982-1985, House of M, Avengers Disassembled, the transition to heroes. A bibliography where the calm episodes explain the most violent ones.
Read article →The founding aggression, the difficult integration, the Australian period, the settlement of the Danvers affair, the 2018 series. A rare bibliography: it is continuous.
Read article →The creation (1976), the stories of Showcase (1978), the loss of one's world, Amanda Conner's run (2009), recovery. Two out of five entries are business decisions.
Read article →A bibliography that begins with an absence: its best moments are those where it is not shown. Its peak precedes its 1987 revelation.
Read article →Grading Spider-Man: CGC, CBCS, PGX: grading scale, key census (AF15, ASM 1, ASM 129) and purchasing advice for collectors.
Read article →An almost entirely dead entourage, and a file without any indirect key: a closed story does not contaminate and is not contaminated.
Read article →Swamp Thing (2019) vs “The Anatomy Lesson” (1984): canceled after a single episode broadcast, for a reason unrelated to the work. Key numbers.
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